Microsoft apparently expects current Windows Phone users to be happy with this solution, with a Microsoft manager quoted as saying:Â “If people have the same functions on theirÂ smartphones, they do not care what version number the operating system is.”

Microsoft has previously alluded to Apple forcing customers to buy new handsets by releasing updates which slow down their current phones, so this solution appears to have been in the works for some time.

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